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Bored programmer built a site that turns Trump’s tweets into shitty poems

The childishly unfiltered approach Donald Trump takes with Twitter has allowed bored programmers to build an entire parody industry around his tweets. Over the last year we’ve seen robots that print and burn his posts, bots that turn his rants into cash, and now – an algorithm that transforms his tweets into poems. A Redditor going by the alias Darby Crash has put together Poet in Chief, an amusing website that selects random Trump tweets and then proceeds to put them in verse. While most of the time the algorithm would generate some barely coherent blocks of text, it does occasionally…